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War of the Worlds: One story, hundreds of covers
Criminy--a picture's worth a thousand words, but how many book covers is that? War of the Worlds, which has been in print for over a hundred years, has spawned hundreds if not thousands of covers. Check out this site, where people from around the world with various versions of the book continue to e-mail cover shots in, adding to a compilation that keeps growing.
Seen en masse, it's essentially a look at how graphic design and illustration has evolved over the last 100 years.
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I did a similar exercise recently on George Orwell's 1984:
www.holster.co.uk/blog/the-look-of-1984
Book covers are a wonderful thing, let's hope they don't go the way of MP3s and we end up reading our books on a Kindle...
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